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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN H. GREENE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK A. LESTER, OF SAME PLACE.

PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,846, dated December 30, 1884.

Applicationfiled December 14, 1883v To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JONATHAN H. GREENE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in a Paint Compound, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification.

In the Letters Patent of the United States, No. 276,029, granted to me, assignor, 820., on the 17th day, of April, 1883, for a new and useful improvement in utilizing waste oilcloth, 850., there is described a process of treating waste oil-cloth, &c., the result of which, in part, is a product of oil and pigment, each possibly of mixed colors and different kinds.

The object ofthepresentinvention is the conversion ofsaid product or si milar products into serviceable paint; and for this purpose I take one hundred pounds ofthe product and place it in a vessel or tank and add thereto one gallon of pure boiled linseedoil, ten gallons of low grade of benzine, ten gallons of pure kerosene or other mineral oil, ten pounds of caustic (No specimens.)

soda, and ten pounds of pulverized rosin or resin, to which latter is added one pint of No. 1 Japan drier. The proportions of the above may be varied according to requirements.

The mass'is then placed in a paint mill or 0 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 40 Patent, is

A paint comp ound formed of a mixture of oil and pigmentrecovered from waste oil-cloth with which are combined linseed-oil, benzine,

kerosene, caustic soda, pulverized rosin, and 45 Japan drier, in about the proportions stated.

JONATHAN H. GREENE. Witnesses: JOHN A. \VIEDERSHEIM, A. P. GRANT. 

